“很有NP”与“有很多NP”构式的比较研究

Abstract

‘You+NP', modified by the degree adverb such as “very, quite, extremely”, represents an evaluation. This evaluation is generally interpreted from the positive “big, high, strong, more, far,” and so on. That’s to say, “(hen)+you+ NP”, whose default value, in people's cognitive field, is “big, high, strong, more, far,” and so on, is a construction in token of Subjective Notion of Quantity. We have often found that in the teaching Chinese as a Foreign language, foreign students like to freely replace this structure with “you hen duo NP”, thinking that the semantic features and the use of the two methods are consistent. Such as: He has a lot of money→he is very rich； very difficult→There are many difficulties, etc. But in many cases, these two constructions not only have differences in semantics, but sometimes they can not be replaced by each other, or there is a difference of usage and semantics after replacement. In this paper, we analyze the characteristics of nominal elements, which can acts as a “hen you NP” and “you hen duo NP” structure type, and analyze the differences of two constructions when they act as a syntactic component and the regularity of them in the exchange, in order to have a certain contribution to the study of Subjective Notion of Quantity construction and the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language.